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PARSONS (or PERSONS), ROBERT (1546-161o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 868 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARSONS (or PERSONS), See also:ROBERT (1546-161o)  , See also:English Jesuit and See also:political agitator, son of a blacksmith, was See also:born at Nether Stowey, See also:Somerset, on the 24th of See also:June 1546 . The See also:vicar of the See also:parish gave him instruction and procured his entrance in 1563 as an exhibitioner to Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford . He graduated B.A. in 1568, and M.A. in 1572 . He was See also:fellow, See also:bursar and See also:dean of his college, but in 1574 he resigned or was dismissed his fellow-See also:ship and offices, for reasons which have been disputed, some alleging improprieties of conduct, and others suspected disloyalty . Soon after his resignation he went to See also:London, and thence in June to See also:Louvain, where he entered the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church and spent some See also:time in the See also:company of See also:Father See also:William See also:Good, a Jesuit . In See also:July 1575 he entered the Jesuit Society at See also:Rome . In r58o he was selected, along with See also:Edmund See also:Campion, a former See also:associate at Oxford, and others, to undertake a See also:secret religious and political See also:mission to See also:England . The two emissaries engaged in political intrigue in England and on the See also:Continent . In 1581 Campion was arrested, but See also:Parsons made his See also:escape to See also:Rouen, whence he returned to Rome, where he continued to See also:direct the English mission . In 1588 he went to See also:Spain, where he remained for nine years, See also:founding seminaries for the training of English priests at See also:Valladolid, Lucar, See also:Seville, See also:Lisbon and St Omer . On the See also:death of See also:Cardinal See also:Allen in 1594 he made strenuous efforts to be appointed his successor . He failed in this, but was made See also:rector of the English college at Rome in 1597, and died there on the 18th of See also:April 1610 Parsons was the author of over 30 polemical writings, mostly tracts .

Among the more important are Certayne Reasons why Cntholiques refuse to goe to Church (See also:

Douai, 158o), A See also:Christian Directorie guiding Men to their Saluation (London, 1583-1591, 2 parts), A See also:Conference about the Next See also:Succession to the See also:Crowne of Ingland (1594), See also:Treatise of the Three Conversions of England (1603-1604, 3 parts), an See also:answer to See also:Foxe's Acts and Monuments . For portrait, see See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, lxiv .

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